What would Sherlock Holmes do?

Go over the Reichenbach falls with Moriarty. But I don’t know whether politicians are willing to do that.

Now it has occurred to me that the reasons they’re so determined not to hang the terrorism rap on Hasan is because they are unsure who will connected to him. A public figure might be seriously embarassed at being an unwitting enabler of a murder, but it would be politically more damaging if the case were terrorism. So the incentive is to cast this as a murder, not for Hasan’s sake, but for whoever Hasan will drag down.

The awkwardness with which this is being handled, the delays and so forth, are really latencies caused by having to check to see who is going to get involved before releasing any information. It’s like a man parsing his words: full of ‘ums’ and ‘ers’ and ‘uhs’. Heck we should be used to it by now.